page_title: Robert Lewis (lynching victim)
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Lewis (lynching victim)
caption_attribution_description: English: Robert Lewis, 1892 lynching victim
context_page_description: Robert Lewis was a 28-year-old African American man who was lynched in Port Jervis, New York on June 2, 1892. His lynching was attended by a mob of 2,000 people, and may have inspired Stephen Crane's novella The Monster.
  Lewis was accused by the mob of assaulting a white woman, Lena McMahon, in an incident by the Neversink River, after she had been meeting with her estranged suitor, a white man named Peter Foley.
context_section_description: Robert Lewis was a 28-year-old  African American man who was lynched in Port Jervis, New York on June 2, 1892.  His lynching was attended by a mob of 2,000 people, and may have inspired Stephen Crane's novella The Monster. 
  Lewis was accused by the mob of assaulting a white woman, Lena McMahon, in an incident by the Neversink River, after she had been meeting with her estranged suitor, a white man named Peter Foley.
caption: Robert Lewis, illustrated in The Tri-States Union.
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